Tag: reviews

Ah, Mr Tumble. Take your finger, touch your nose, blink three times and wonder what happened to your life. Yes, I admit it. The Mr Tumble thing? I don’t get it. I’m not a fan of Justin Fletcher (sorry, Justin). Give me Mr Bloom any day of the week. Sadly for …

Wicked Uncle were the very first brand I worked with as a blogger, in this post back in April. We were totally spoilt. They were a great company to work with and the kids loved their toys, so when I saw that they were looking for bloggers to work with …

I’m going along to the 2016 Mumsnet BlogFest Conference as a finalist for the Mumsnet Bloggers Best Comic Writer Award thanks to Litecup, who are very kindly sponsoring me to attend. I felt it would be a bit cheeky of me to fly their flag without testing the goods – so I …

You probably don’t recall unless you’re some kind of blog reading savant or have had the misfortune to listen to me ranting about it, but we bought an Ariel Disney Princess doll for her to take on holiday, and we still have it, but the bloody thing falls apart as soon …

So Monday might have been wet, miserable and full of poop but on Wednesday, I got my parenting mojo back. We had a thoroughly exhausting but brilliantly fun day out in our nation’s fair capital. See? It’s not always doom and gloom over here (it’s just arguably funnier – for you, not me …

The big one has just started preschool. It is an emotional time. Not for her (she’s fine), for me. Mainly because of the fact she’s only away for three hours at a time twice a week and during those three hours (about 2hrs 40minutes taking out the walk there and …

Welcome to my Axkid Minikid car seat review; to see our verdict, scroll to the end! At 14 months, the small one still fits inside his baby car seat. However knowing it wouldn’t last too much longer (these kids do insist on growing, don’t they, the little buggers?) we recently started …

The BIBaDO is a new type of bib for messy weaners. We were sent one to put through its paces, and about time too! This weekend, Doug took our dog Riker out for a run and, annoyingly, he split his dewclaw. The dog I mean. It was hanging off at …

It is probably true that, like soft play, every parent blogger has a potty training blog in them. It’s an inevitable part of raising toddlers and if my experience is anything to go by, there will be a tale or two to tell afterwards. After a bit of a false …

Warning: May contain bad puns My daughter was such a good eater as a baby; she never refused a thing and would eat vegetables with glee. She actually did most things with glee; it’s how we were tricked into having another one. Then, suddenly and without fair warning, the inevitable …